SPARTAN JAPANESE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5

SPARTAN JAPANESE

Challenge To “Flabby”

White Men

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

WASHINGTON, August 31.

The former United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph C. Grew, said in a broadcast: “There is not suflicient room in the Pacific for the peaceful American and peace-loving United Nations and swash-buckling Japan. The Japanese -military caste and military system, whose cruelty and brutality have caused this war, must be crushed.

“No one should entertain, even momentarily, the idea that the Japanese' army’s failure in China has discouraged the Japanese people. On the contrary, it has steeled them to greater sacrifices.

“Furthermore, the Japanese High Command relied on the white man’s flabbiness. They regard us as constitutional weaklings, unwilling to make sacrifices for victory against a machine which prepared and trained with Spartan simplicity. "When Japan struck she left no road for retreat.”

Mr. Grew expressed confidence that “we can defeat the Japanese,” but said: “Victory is remote unless we realize we are fighting a powerful war machine and a people whose morale cannot ,be broken by economic hardship, .but only by complete physical defeat and physical expulsion from the areas which they have temporarily conquered, and also by progressive attrition of their naval power and merchant marine, resulting in cutting off their homeland from all the outlying areas.”